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TIL Guinness is releasing a 200th Anniversary Stout based on a recipe from 1817.

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KO1DG TIL Despite being fourth in total landmass, the United States is first in arable (suitable for growing crops) land, followed by India, Russia, and China
D18eV TIL In Europe during the Middle Ages nuns had an allowance of six pints of ale each day
D1pnv TIL that Before the Civil War, uniforms were custom-sewn. Such a massive number of people had to be outfitted that uniforms needed to be mass produced. Soldiers were put into subtypes: large, medium, and small—classifications that eventually found their way to civilian clothing.
Z8EB4 TIL that ostriches must eat rocks and sharp things to help them digest their food, and those rocks never come out when they poop. Instead they get worn down by the food. And if ostriches don't eat rocks, glass, or other sharp things, they will die.
j6rRv TIL that despite their presence in pop culture, the Nine Realms of Norse cosmology are never clearly defined or listed in any of the sources of old Norse folklore that survived to the modern day